| Europasaurus Temporal range: Late Jurassic,
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| Reconstructed skeleton, Aathal Dinosaur Museum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade: | Dinosauria |
| Clade: | Saurischia |
| Clade: | †Sauropodomorpha |
| Clade: | †Sauropoda |
| Clade: | †Macronaria |
| Clade: | †Camarasauromorpha |
| Genus: | †Europasaurus Mateus et al. in Sander et al., 2006[1] |
| Species: | †E. holgeri
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| Binomial name | |
| †Europasaurus holgeri Mateus et al. in Sander et al., 2006[1]
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Europasaurus (meaning 'Europe lizard') is a basal macronarian sauropod, a form of quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur. It lived during the Late Jurassic (middle Kimmeridgian, from about 154 to 151 million years ago) of northern Germany, and has been identified as an example of insular dwarfism resulting from the isolation of a sauropod population on an island within the Lower Saxony basin.